13+ Things You Shouldn’t Eat at a Restaurant

[jazz lady]

13+ Things You Shouldn't Eat at a Restaurant | Reader's Digest

Some highlights...or lowlights as the case may be.

Meat with the bone in

Small cuts of meat, like bone-in pork or chicken breasts, are harder to cook thoroughly because their outsides easily char. This often translates to crispy on the outside and raw on the inside. Unlike undercooked beef—say, a rare burger or a steak tartare—undercooked pork and chicken are highly dangerous and could causes food-borne illnesses, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

"From-there" seafood

Unless the joint is known for its seafood, there’s no guarantee you're going to get what's on the menu. “About 70 percent of the time, for example, those Maryland crab cakes weren't made using crabs from the Chesapeake Bay,” says James Anderson, chairman of the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island, in Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney. And while the kitchen might swap snapper for a cheaper tilapia, many times the distributors do a bait and switch, too.

 

[RoseRed]

I thought it would have listed cockroaches and hair in nachos.

 

[Bay_Kat]

I thought it would have listed cockroaches and hair in nachos.

I really hope no one needs to be told not to eat those.

 

[jazz lady]

I thought it would have listed cockroaches and hair in nachos.

I think not eating those would be OBVIOUS.

 

[RoseRed]

I think not eating those would be OBVIOUS.

I know.

 

[MarieB]

I'm calling bluff on some of this. Sensationalism and scare tactics. They seem to also be mixing scare tactics (illness from food that hasn't been handled properly) with value statements. If you really want to go out to eat, and you decide to order a certain dish, then you are not really concerned about the price unless the food sucks.

 

[Merlin99]

13+ Things You Shouldn't Eat at a Restaurant | Reader's Digest

Some highlights...or lowlights as the case may be.

Well done hasn't been recommended for pork chops for years.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm calling bluff on some of this. Sensationalism and scare tactics. They seem to also be mixing scare tactics (illness from food that hasn't been handled properly) with value statements. If you really want to go out to eat, and you decide to order a certain dish, then you are not really concerned about the price unless the food sucks.

^ This ^

People who are grossed out by every little thing need to stay home in their bubble. And yes, it makes perfect sense that you could have ice cream at home for cheaper than you can get it at a restaurant - thank you, Reader's Digest, for cluing me in.